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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.2 hrs on record
Posted: 19 Mar, 2022 @ 6:28pm

There's no excuse for this game to be as bad as it is from a gameplay perspective in this day and age, porn game or not.

Combat has a bloated target system. Enemies have extraneous body parts, but they have little impact on combat until the endgame, so until maybe the fourth area it makes significantly more sense to just attack the core enemy, as when this is defeated the extraneous parts disappear. This applies to the player as well. You have a core health pool and three extraneous health pools. The latter seems like you might take more damage when they're fully depleted, maybe. It's unclear. Nowhere in the game is this discussed, it just needs to be intuited.

Additionally, the skill system, such as it is, gives you spells that deal damage specific to enemy groups which are divided by area. This leads to the game feeling like it wants you to grind. Unfortunately, combat is slow in addition to being unsatisfying. The same 4 animations with minor variations in color are employed when you're attacked all the way up to the sixth area, where two new animations are introduced. Conversely, the player displays two main attack animations and two spell animations. The spell animations don't change based on what spell you're using either, just depending on whether or not you're using a single target or mass damage spell. As yet another gripe, when your character misses an attack, an audio cue plays... And then the audio cue for a successful attack plays. Jesus.

There's plenty to complain about outside of combat as well. In addition to broken flags (one npc can be corrupted in area 5 by talking to them, regardless of your choice afterward), flags for corrupting npcs come up without warning and choose doing so as the default. Given that this can't be undone, it leads to a lot of reloading saves if you aren't trying to corrupt people. The game also features a forced stealth section, and if you want to leave the area filled with encounters to recover your HP or drop off rescued maidens (which supposedly boosts your stats but I couldn't tell), then you'll need to replay that section. It's not hard, but it is annoying.

Apart from the character art, which is the only strong asset of the game, the RPG maker asset library is on full display for magic attacks, player attack sound effects, map interactions and music. The final boss doesn't even use its own song, not that there's a sense of build up or urgency. It makes the experience feel extra cheap for anyone who's played a few RPG maker games.

The story of the game is an isekai excuse plot. Teleported to a world within a book and the only way to get out is to gather the pages. At no point is anyone given any characterization, though some named characters appear without introduction as if I should know who they are.

The game also dips into obvious reference at a few points at the end, confusingly DOOM (so far as to launch a pop up youtube tab! What the hell?) and the Alien franchises apart from more generic influences. The game as a whole feels like it doesn't have any ideas outside of the character designs or the porn facilitated by them. Overall it feels like the game would work better as a fetish art collection- and one that could reasonably sell at the price of the game, considering how much of it there is. That art is poorly served by attempts at animation by distortion in a number of instances, though overall the art is still of high quality.

I would strongly recommend that if the developer wants to keep making games, they look at other works in this space to see what functions, because this doesn't.
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